SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (SUSE-SU-2026:0692-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 300233

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:0692-1 advisory.

- Update to Thunderbird 140.7.2
- CVE-2026-2447: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in libvpx. (bsc#1258231)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected MozillaThunderbird, MozillaThunderbird-translations-common and / or MozillaThunderbird-translations- other packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1258231

http://www.nessus.org/u?a8ebac28

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-2447

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 300233

File Name: suse_SU-2026-0692-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/2/2026

Updated: 3/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-2447

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird-translations-common, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozillathunderbird-translations-other

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-2447

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:0692-1